Rich McCormack wrote:

> Perhaps you should have more clearly qualified your statements to
> indicate you meant Post-Columbian Mayans and their modern descendants.
> "This recipe was made by the Mayans" and "This recipe was made by
> the Mayans with wild boar which is still hunted in the interior of
> Quintana Roo" seemed to refer to the distant past and indicate you
> were writing of the Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Yucatan
> peninsula. At least it did to me, sorry if I misunderstood your
> intent.

If I ever translate a pre-Columbian Mayan recipe from the glyphs in the
Dresden Codex
or on a funerary stele, I will publish it in a peer-reviewed journal of
archaeology, not on Usenet. ;-)